Hat-pin protector.



J. J. BOHAN.

HAT PIN PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1914.

1,148,746 Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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JOHN J. IBOH'AN, OF NANTICOKE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HATeIPIN rnornciron.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3 1915.

Application filed. July 20, 1914. Serial No. 852,051.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. BOHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nanticoke, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHat- Pin Protectors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a novel improvement in means for protecting the points of hat pins, and has for its object the production of such a protector as will be exceedingly simple and inexpensive, which may be expeditiously placed upon the pointvof a hat pin to protect the same and to also prevent the accidental removal of the pin, and readily removed.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, may know how to make my improved protector and appreciate its advantages I will proceed to describe the same, referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a hat pin equipped with one of my protectors. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section on the line aa of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view on enlarged scale, of the protector removed from its concealing cover or casing; and Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section of similar scale, on line bb of Fig. 3.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

1 represents an ordinary hat pin with a head of any desired form or material, and 2 is my improved protector shown as concealing and protecting thepoint ofthe pin. The peculiar construction of the protector will be best understood by reference to Figs. 3 and 4.

3 is a thin flat U-shaped metal body having two parallel wings 4. Thisbody being of thin metal the wings are resiliently held in spaced relation. On one of said wings is rigidly secured a small metallic tube 5, having an interior diameter suflicient to allow the point of the pin to freely pass therein, the forward end of said tube being slightly flared to effect the proper guiding of the point of the pin, and the bottom inside surface of this tube is slightly roughened as shown at 6, for the purpose presently described. The tube is out away aboutcentrally as shown'at 7 ,to' permit of the vibration of one arm 8 of a short bell crank lever which is pivotally hung to the opposite'wing of the flat metal body 3. The other arm 9 of this lever lies on theoutside of the wing of said body, as clearly shown, and the extremity or free end of the arm 8, is rounded in order that its contact with the pin shall not roughen or deface it.

10 is a casing of any suitable design or material for concealing the protector and has an opening in one end in axial alinement with the flared end of the small tube 5, and the protector has one wing fixed to the wall of the casing, the other wing being disposed in the middle of the casing and being resiliently supported therein by the body 3.

The'short arm 9 is accessible on the outside of the casing as clearly shown. In using the protector, the hat pin is passed through the hat and the hair of the wearer, and the protector is then passed on the point of the pin which enters the flared end of the tube 5, and passing between the roughened surface of the bottom of the tube, and the rounded terminus of the lever arm 9 and contacting therewith causes the lever to vibrate slightly upon its pivot, which causes the end of the lever to clamp the pin in place and establishes a fixed relation with the protector which, when desired, may with facility be removed by raising the lever arm 9, which will in an obvious manner release its grip upon the point of the pin.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A hat pin protector including an exterior hollow shell or casing, a U-shaped body of thin metal providing a middle portion and two approximately parallel wings disposed within the hollow casing having one of its wings rigidly secured to the wall of the casing and the other wing disposed approximately at the middle of the casing, a longitudinally disposed tubular pin receiver mounted upon the last named wing, said pin receiver being closed at one end and flared at its opposite end and cut away centrally at one side, the end of the casing being formed with a perforation registering with the flared end of the receiver, and a bell crank lever pivotally mounted at the intersection of its arms upon the fixed wing of the body, one of said arms projecting through the casing for manipulation, and the other arm extending inward in position to engage with the pin introduced therein.

2. A hat pin protector includlng an outer shell or casing pierced at one end for the entrance of a hat pin, a tubular pin receiver resiliently supported at the center of the casing, having a flared end 1n register with I the opening in the casing, one side of the receiver being cut away, and an angular lever pivotally mounted in the wall of the casing opposite said cut away portion and 15 oscillatable into or out of engagement with a pin inserted in said receiver.

' In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JQHN J. BOHAN.

Witnesses: d

RICHARD B. SHERIDAN, D. PEVNSYLJ Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the ,Goni1nissioner' of ratents',

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